{"id":856,"date":"2009-12-24T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T20:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paragonis.com\/Emails\/?p=856"},"modified":"2009-12-24T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T20:19:36","slug":"the-high-cost-of-dental-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"The High Cost of Dental Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day a man walks into a dentist&#8217;s office and asks how much it will cost to extract wisdom teeth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eighty dollars,&#8221; the dentist says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a ridiculous amount,&#8221; the man says.  &#8220;Isn&#8217;t there a cheaper way?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; the dentist says, &#8220;if you don&#8217;t use an anesthetic, I can knock it down to $60.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s still too expensive,&#8221; the man says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay,&#8221; says the dentist.  &#8220;If I save on anesthesia and simply rip the teeth out with a pair of pliers, I could get away with charging $20.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nope,&#8221; moans the man, &#8220;it&#8217;s still too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hmm,&#8221; says the dentist, scratching his head.  &#8220;If I let one of my students do it for the experience, I suppose I could charge you just $10.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marvelous,&#8221; says the man, &#8220;book my wife for next Tuesday!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day a man walks into a dentist&#8217;s office and asks how much it will cost to extract wisdom teeth. &#8220;Eighty dollars,&#8221; the dentist says. &#8220;That&#8217;s a ridiculous amount,&#8221; the man says. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t there a cheaper way?&#8221; &#8220;Well,&#8221; the dentist says, &#8220;if you don&#8217;t use an anesthetic, I can knock it down to $60.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}